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'It didn't use to bug you'

DEFINITION: n. A personality quirk or habit, which at first blush seems "cute", but which can quickly become so annoying that it undermines personal relationships. v. To be habitually irksome.

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Habituex

Created by: BMott

Pronunciation: Ha - bit - u - x

Sentence: Tony's crotch scratching forced Amber to make him a habituex.

Etymology: Habit - trait, often annoying u - your trait ex - previous girl/boyfriend, spouse

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Endearmental

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: enn deeer ment ahl

Sentence: his enderment finally drove her endearmental. She put the bear trap in her (large)Armani bag, before heading out to the disco. "Tonight will be the last time he grabs his crotch when they play Michael Jackson" she promised herself,

Etymology: endearment mental

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Relationbug

Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: re-lei-sjon- bug

Sentence: Sandra was in debug-mode; It was time to remove Jack's relationbug's or terminate the program!

Etymology: relationship - a strange interface between java.human.man() and java.human.woman() ************ bug - undocumented feature in a microsoft-application.

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COMMENTS:

I like it. It even works without the CS reference, as in "to bug someone." It'd be better as two words, but we don't really have that option here. Gets my vote anyway. - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:46:00

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Vexitating

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: vex-i-ta-ting

Sentence: Sam was the most vexitating man I ever knew. He had more bad habits than an alcoholic nun.

Etymology: vex: to cause annoyance by minor irritations + irritating: chafe; aggravating

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COMMENTS:

artr Lol. I\'ve known a few Sams too. - artr, 2009-09-09: 12:21:00

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Hateabit

Created by: megmehtab

Pronunciation: heɪt ˈhæbɪt

Sentence: I am not going to bother you with my hateabit anymore.

Etymology: Taken from simple english; hate + habit = hateabit A habit you dislike now.

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Jiltrait

Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: jill-trate (rhymes with filtrate)

Sentence: Hogan wondered why his relationships never lasted; finally a friend told him about all of his bad jiltraits.

Etymology: jilt + trait

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Agitrait

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: aj/i/treyt

Sentence: His nose-picking became a major agitrait for his girlfriend.

Etymology: agitate + trait

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Quabit

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Created by: erasmus

Pronunciation: kwaa bit

Sentence: Diane always had the quabit of finishing of your...

Etymology: from quirk and habit, bit obvious but I'm not feeling that original today.

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Reminds me of a quantum computing qubit. It's like a habit that is only annoying depending on your point of view. On an only slightly related point, I once used "qubyte" in a round of Scrabble! - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:43:00

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Peccadilly

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: peh-ca-DIL-ee

Sentence: Gloria was appalled when Glenn's public nose picking was revealed as yet another peccadilly to be added to his collection of socially unacceptable faults.

Etymology: Blend of PECCADILLO (Spanish pecadillo, diminutive of pecado sin < Latin peccātum transgression, noun use of neuter of past participle of peccāre to err, offend) and DILLY (something or someone regarded as remarkable, unusual)

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Stoppit

Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: sto-pit

Sentence: The only thing more annoying that his little stoppit -- he would continually jiggle in his chair like a little Bill Gates -- was his wife yelling "stoppit" every time she saw him do it.

Etymology: stop+it

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I like it! - ErWenn, 2007-02-16: 10:43:00

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Comments:

wordmeister - 2007-02-15: 23:50:00
It was tricky to come up with right word for this one...

ErWenn - 2007-02-16: 10:44:00
Lots of good words for annoying habits today. It seems to be much harder to come up with a good word for an annoying habit that starts out as endearing.